Notes - National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian
Meeting with Marty Kreipe de Montano
Thursday, October 19, 2006
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Attendees:
Marty
Yolanda
Tasha
Ya Yun
Yen-Yu
Robert

Haskell
University of Kansas
Bureau of Indian Affairs

UT – University of Texas
QuickTime for Educators Program

Pro-sumer equipment
Needs:

Need more awareness of resource center
Laundry list

Puzzle/Solitare game
Match Game – Flyback animation

Shell to be populated
Give

Laundry List
Relate to present day
Address change over time
Focus on 4th to 8th graders

Tribal involvement

Shell to be populated
E-mail to themselves
Prototype Activities

Action
Tracking
People are still here
People today
Tribal communication
Tribal College Library
Techinal Esign
Terra Incognito
Austin Texas http://www.terraincognita.com/
Paco Link
Mark Baltzegar

http://www.terraincognita.com/production.php?topic=all_topics&title=interactive_learning_center

http://www.terraincognita.com/studio.php?section=team_members

Summary
Defining the Project
Proposal
Education and Technology

0:00
Get technology in schools and teach the teachers how to use technology.
Kids are not afraid
Funded

Summer Institute at Haskell

1:19
NMAI joined

UT Austin http://www.edb.utexas.edu/ltc/
Paul Resta
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/00newsreleases/nr_200002/nr_children000207.html

Mark Christal
http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~mark/
QuickTime for educators and

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research/publications.php
5:28
Kaidan Object Rig http://www.kaidan.com/
Four Directions Project – Lazy Susan
Prosumer equipment

8:20
Four directions
http://www.4directions.org/
http://www.4directions.org/community/abstract.html

Grant
Beginnings of the NMAI resource enter
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/christal/christal.html
People don’t apply to museum programs

15:00
Group Introductions

20:00
Possible needs / problems
Applying to program
Communications – marketing needs
Identifying possible solutions commitment to “this living culture”

30:00
“A cross between a puzzle that you piece together, with the functionality of solitaire. Matching game.”
Hopi: Teepee, Long House, Pueblo (will fit)
List of Tribes on one sides

31:50
“Some kind of shell that we could populate that would also give them things we don’t ask for.” (Present day)

32:30
“When we have the fourth through eighth graders come in here and they have this assignment, we can say you can go out there and you can pick different tribes – and if it was something we can add tribes too we can work over the long haul we could determine how much to involve tribes”

“If we could have some kind of shell where we could populate the information”
Defining needs with similar type of projects

Determine the design
Build the prototype

“Something we can populate ourselves – we may want to work with tribes to see how they want to be represented.”

35:00
Maybe a collage of photos that say something like "Cherokee" on the top.
Needs to be something they can e-mail to themselves. We don’t print anything out.
- e-mail postcard, coloring pages.
e-mail Powerpoint?
Utilize a library of images.
38:00

Timeline activity – may drop images on top of a timeline or a map.
The shell.

41:06
Breakdown book – Indians of North America by Harold E. Driver.

44:00

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